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[PATCH] Remove old HW RNG support
authorMichael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:24:58 +0000 (00:24 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
Mon, 26 Jun 2006 16:58:19 +0000 (09:58 -0700)
commit59f5d35f83738bf07e66f8cdcff32a433df804a3
tree886c17315aaeb887d764bca659eda1a514392b9e
parent9637f28f8b9facff53b00bea6b5d27c9b150b422
[PATCH] Remove old HW RNG support

This patch series replaces the old non-generic Hardware Random Number
Generator support by a fully generic RNG API.

This makes it possible to register additional RNGs from modules.  With this
patch series applied, Laptops with a bcm43xx chip (PowerBook) have a HW RNG
available now.

Additionally two new RNG drivers are added for the "ixp4xx" and "omap"
devices.  (Written by Deepak Saxena).  This patch series includes the old
patches by Deepak Saxena.

The old x86-rng driver has beed split.

The userspace RNG daemon can later be updated to select the RNG through
/sys/class/misc/hw_random/ for convenience.  For now it is sufficient to use
cat and echo -n on the sysfs attributes.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
drivers/char/Kconfig
drivers/char/Makefile
drivers/char/hw_random.c [deleted file]